Movies Like Bystanders

If you liked Bystanders (2024), a horror and thriller movie directed by Mary Beth McAndrews, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller and horror
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
2
Bloodline (2019)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and thriller
Evan values family above all else, and anyone who gets between him, his wife, and newborn son learns that the hard way. But when it comes to violent tendencies, it seems the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
3
Wake Up (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and thriller
A group of young activists set out to make an environmental statement by vandalizing a home superstore as it closes. But their plan goes terribly wrong when they become trapped inside and must face a deranged security…
4
The Strangers: Chapter 3 (2026)
★ 6/10Also horror and thriller
Tethered by a frightening conclusion, Maya and the Strangers are locked on an unavoidable, unforgiving collision course — a showdown that proves they’re far from strangers now.
5
Strange Darling (2024)
★ 6.9/10Also thriller and horror
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
6
The Entity (1982)
★ 6.8/10Also horror and thriller
A single mom is raped by an invisible force. Her psychiatrist believes the experience stems from childhood trauma, while she knows something supernatural is at play.
7
The Final (2010)
★ 6/10Also thriller and horror
A group of high school outcasts get revenge on the students that torment them.
8
Ma (2019)
★ 5.8/10Also horror and thriller
Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting…
9
The Strangers: Chapter 2 (2025)
★ 6/10Also horror and thriller
After learning that one of their victims, Maya, is still alive, The Strangers return to finish the job. With nowhere to run and no one to trust, Maya soon finds herself in a brutal fight for survival against…
10
Urban Legend (1998)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and thriller
A college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends.
11
Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
★ 6.1/10Also horror
Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenagers of Elm Street. Only this time, they're out to get each other, too.
12
The Crow (1994)
★ 7.5/10Also thriller
Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven, watched over by a hypnotic crow, returns from the grave to exact revenge.
13
Scream VI (2023)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and thriller
Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.
14
Blood Punch (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and thriller
Milton, a college dropout, was only supposed to cook meth for one day. Broken out of rehab by a brash young woman and her trigger-happy ("ex") boyfriend and driven to a remote cabin the woods, Milton finds himself…
15
Jolt (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller
A bouncer with an anger management problem goes on a furious and resentful rampage after the murder of a friend.
16
Insidious: The Red Door (2023)
★ 6.6/10Also horror and thriller
To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh Lambert and a college-aged Dalton Lambert must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family's dark past and a host of new and more horrifying…
17
Bloodline Killer (2024)
★ 6/10Also horror and thriller
Moira Cole endeavors to rebuild her shattered life after her family's murder at the hands of her deranged and obsessed cousin.
18
Jason Lives - Friday the 13th Part VI (1986)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and thriller
Tommy Jarvis, tormented by the fear that maybe Jason isn't really dead, unwittingly resurrects the mass murderer for another bloody rampage.
19
The Hunt (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and horror
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport…
20
The Last Breath (2024)
★ 6/10Also horror and thriller
A group of old college friends reunite on a Caribbean scuba diving trip exploring the wreckage of a WWII battleship and find themselves trapped inside the underwater labyrinth of rusted metal surrounded by great white…